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Name: George Jesien
Affiliation: Executive Director, AUCD
George Jesien, Ph.D. is the executive director of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) which represents national networks of Universities Centers conducting research, training and service model development. He has had over 30 years of experience in various capacities including school psychologist, university faculty, and director of state and federally funded programs. Previous positions include serving as the executive director of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation and the director of the Early Intervention Program at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Jesien was awarded a Joseph P Kennedy, Jr. Foundation Public Policy Fellowship to work with the US Senate Subcommittee On Disability Policy. He has served as the president of the National and State Divisions for Early Childhood and received outstanding service awards at the state and national levels. Dr. Jesien received his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in human development.
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Name: Anne Marie Tharpe
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
Anne Marie Tharpe, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences and Associate Director of Education for the National Center for Childhood Deafness at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Tharpe’s clinical and research interests are in the area of pediatric audiology. Specifically, she works primarily on three topics – the impact of hearing loss on various aspects of child development, special needs of children with multiple disabilities, and the development and assessment of hearing in infants. Dr. Tharpe has published extensively in national and international professional journals, has published numerous book chapters, and has spoken to over 160 audiences around the world on pediatric audiology issues.
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Name: Richard Harward
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Richard S. Harward, Au.D., CCC-A, is the Director of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Program in Utah and the Program Manager for the Utah Department of Health's Specialty Services Program within the Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) Bureau. He is also the Program Manager for the UDOH Child Health Advanced Records Management Project (CHARM), which involves the development of an integrated data sharing network to track and monitor outcomes for Utah children. His background includes clinical and administrative positions in both the private health care system and public health. He has adjunct faculty appointments in the Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education Department at Utah State University, and with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Harward is also the Utah Regional LEND (URLEND) Audiology Discipline Coordinator. Additionally, he provides clinical services for infants and pediatric patients and their families through the CSHCN clinics.
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Name: Judith Holt
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Judith M. Holt, PhD is a faculty member at Utah State University in the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation and also serves as the Director pf the Interdisciplinary Training Division at the Center for Persons with Disabilities (CPD). Dr. Holt received her doctorate in Special Education-Visual Impairment and Multiple Disabilities from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Holt has worked extensively in Utah, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas in designing, implementing, and evaluation programs, services, and supports for children, youth, and adults with disabilities. She was instrumental in obtaining the funding in 2001 for the Utah Regional Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities program (URLEND) funded by Maternal and Child Health Bureau. URLEND was recently awarded a supplement to add four audiology trainees to the URLEND program annually. In addition, Dr. Holt serves as a faculty member for the MCHB training program for pediatric communication disorders at Utah State University.
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Name: Allison Sedey
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Allison Sedey, Ph.D. is a speech pathologist, audiologist, and research associate. She works for the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind tracking speech and language outcomes for children who are deaf or hard of hearing between birth and 7 years of age throughout the state of Colorado. She is currently managing a new project that involves establishing a national database of speech and language outcomes for children with hearing loss from birth to 3. As part of this project she is assisting interested states in implementing statewide outcomes assessment.
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